Social Diversity within Multiliteracies

Preface

Chapter 1: Reflections on the Past, Working within the "Future": Advancing a Multiliteracies Theory and Pedagogy Fenice B. Boyd and Cynthia H. Brock

PART I: Exploring Languages, Language Varieties, Culture, Ethnicity, and Identities

Chapter 2: Language Study in Teacher Education: Cultivating Teachers' Understandings of Language Variation Debra Goodman

Chapter 3: "Deadly Ways to Learn:" Language Variation, Ideology, and Learning Literacies Cynthia H. Brock, Jenni Carter, and Fenice B. Boyd

Chapter 4: My Life in Stories, My World in Pictures: A View of Multiliteracies from the Outside In Rachel G. Salas and Julie L. Pennington

Chapter 5: White Male Teachers Exploring Language, Literacy, and Diversity: A Self-Study of Perceptions of Diversity(ies) Mary B. McVee, David Fronzack, Jay Stainsby, and Chad White

Chapter 6: Embracing Sexual Diversity in Classroom Teaching Lynda R. Wiest

Chapter 7: Designing Safe Places to Talk about Contentious Topics Fenice B. Boyd and Andrea L. Tochelli

PART II: Exploring Languages, Language Varieties, Culture, Ethnicity, and Identities in Classrooms and Communities

Chapter 8: Code-switching and Contrastive Analysis: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom Rebecca Wheeler and Rachel Swords

Chapter 9: Tangled in Charlotte's Web: Lessons Learned from English Learners Claudia Christensen Haag and Margaret Compton

Chapter 10: Culture and Identity: Promoting the Literacies of a Sudanese Father and Son Doris Walker-Dalhouse and A. Derick Dalhouse

Chapter 11: Social Equity Teaching in Action: My Community IS My Classroom Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and David Benjamin McMillon

Chapter 12: Transforming Locked Doors: Using Multiliteracies to Recontextualize Identities and Learning for Youth Living on the Margins Sean Turner

Chapter 13: "That Teacher Just Uses Her Mouth": Inviting Linguistically Diverse Students to Learn Zaline M. Roy-Campbell

PART III: Lessons Learned about Social Diversities within Multiliteracies

Chapter 14: Transforming Practice in Action Cynthia H. Brock and Fenice B. Boyd